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Date:      Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:13:46 -0700
From:      James Earl <james@icionline.ca>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: network card
Message-ID:  <1102374826.660.14.camel@serious.ab.hsia.telus.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0412062211510.78051@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
References:  <200412061605.57407.groot@kde.org> <33305.134.214.201.98.1102347937.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> <20041206172538.GC32801@dragon.nuxi.com> <1102370950.660.4.camel@serious.ab.hsia.telus.net> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0412062211510.78051@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>

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On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 22:18 +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, James Earl wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:25 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Can you update to RELENG_5 and try again?  There was a MAJOR bug fixed
> > > after 5.3 (diff attached).
> >
> > I've patched to 1.83.2.3, as well as the latest if_sk.c, and if_skreg.h
> > in CVS but am still having problems with the sk device.
> >
> > It seems I only have problems when trying to obtain a dhcp lease.  I am
> 
> this is one of the last open issues. See
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/61296
> 
> I will investigate this once the other things got MFCed.
> 
> Hans Lambermont told me that a
> 	media "media 10baseT/UTP";
> in dhclient.conf seems to be a workaround though this is really
> very very unsupported and you might see some "funny" state in
> ifconfig media line.
> If you really need DHCP on your interface you might want ot give
> it a try in the meantime.
> 

Thank you.  I'm okay living with it for the time being.  I usually only
turn my system on once a day, so it's definitely not a huge problem for
me.




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